Jeremiah 6:5
New International Version
So arise, let us attack at night and destroy her fortresses!”

New Living Translation
‘Well then, let’s attack at night and destroy her palaces!’”

English Standard Version
Arise, and let us attack by night and destroy her palaces!”

Berean Standard Bible
Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’ ”

King James Bible
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

New King James Version
Arise, and let us go by night, And let us destroy her palaces.”

New American Standard Bible
‘Arise, and let’s attack by night And destroy her palaces!’”

NASB 1995
“Arise, and let us attack by night And destroy her palaces!”

NASB 1977
“Arise, and let us attack by night And destroy her palaces!”

Legacy Standard Bible
Arise, and let us go up by night And destroy her palaces!”

Amplified Bible
‘Arise, let us [awaken to] attack her at night And destroy her [fortified] palaces!’”

Christian Standard Bible
Rise up, let’s attack by night. Let’s destroy her fortresses.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Rise up, let’s attack by night. Let us destroy her fortresses.”

American Standard Version
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

Contemporary English Version
we'll attack after dark and destroy its fortresses."

English Revised Version
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Let's attack at night and destroy its palaces.'"

Good News Translation
We'll attack by night; we'll destroy the city's fortresses."

International Standard Version
Get ready, let's attack at night, and destroy her fortresses."

Majority Standard Bible
Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”

NET Bible
So come on, let's go ahead and attack it by night and destroy all its fortified buildings.'

New Heart English Bible
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces."

Webster's Bible Translation
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

World English Bible
Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces.”
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Rise, and we go up by night, "" And we destroy her palaces.”

Young's Literal Translation
'Rise, and we go up by night, And we destroy her palaces.'

Smith's Literal Translation
Arise, and we will go up in the night, and we will destroy her fortresses.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.

Catholic Public Domain Version
‘Rise up, and let us ascend in the night, and let us destroy her houses.’ ”

New American Bible
“Up! let us rush upon her by night, destroy her palaces!”

New Revised Standard Version
“Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!”
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Arise, and let us go up against her by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Arise! We shall go up against her in the night and we shall destroy her palaces!”
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Arise, and let us go up by night, And let us destroy her palaces.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Jerusalem's Final Warning
4‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long. 5Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’” 6For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.…

Cross References
Isaiah 8:9-10
Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered! / Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”

Ezekiel 21:22
In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.

2 Kings 25:1-4
So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. / And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. / By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. ...

Lamentations 2:7
The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

Amos 3:6
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

Micah 3:12
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.

Isaiah 29:1-3
Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur. / And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me. / I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.

2 Chronicles 36:17-19
So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, / who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials. / Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

Habakkuk 1:6-10
For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own. / They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty. / Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour. ...

Matthew 24:15-16
So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), / then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Luke 21:20-22
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. / Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city. / For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

Mark 13:14
So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Revelation 18:8-10
Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.” / Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. / In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”

Matthew 22:7
The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.


Treasury of Scripture

Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

let us destroy.

Jeremiah 9:21
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

Jeremiah 17:27
But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

Jeremiah 52:13
And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

hew.

Deuteronomy 20:19,20
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: …

cast a mount.

Jeremiah 32:24
Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.

Jeremiah 33:4
For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

Jeremiah 52:4
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

this.

Jeremiah 5:9,29
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? …

wholly.

2 Kings 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Isaiah 59:13,14
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood…

Ezekiel 7:23
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

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Jeremiah 6
1. The enemies sent against Judah,
4. encourage themselves.
6. God sets them on work because of their sins.
9. The prophet laments the judgments of God because of their sins.
18. He proclaims God's wrath.
26. He calls the people to mourn for the judgment on their sins.














Arise
The Hebrew word for "arise" is "קוּם" (qum), which conveys a sense of urgency and action. In the context of Jeremiah 6:5, it is a call to immediate action, reflecting the impending judgment and the need for readiness. This word often appears in the Old Testament when God commands His people to take decisive steps, whether in battle or in obedience to His will. The urgency here underscores the seriousness of the situation facing Jerusalem, as God’s judgment is imminent.

Let us attack
The phrase "let us attack" is derived from the Hebrew "נַעֲלֶה" (na'aleh), which means to go up or ascend, often used in military contexts. This reflects the historical reality of ancient warfare, where cities were often built on elevated ground for defense. The attackers are depicted as ascending to lay siege, indicating a strategic and determined assault. Spiritually, this can be seen as a metaphor for the relentless nature of sin and the spiritual battles believers face, urging vigilance and preparedness.

by night
The choice of "by night" highlights the element of surprise and the cover of darkness, which were common tactics in ancient warfare. Night attacks were particularly feared because they caught defenders off guard, leading to panic and confusion. In a spiritual sense, this can symbolize the unexpected nature of trials and temptations that come upon believers, emphasizing the need for constant spiritual vigilance and reliance on God’s protection.

and destroy
The Hebrew word "נַשְׁחִיתָה" (nashchitah) means to ruin or annihilate. This reflects the totality of the destruction intended for Jerusalem due to its persistent disobedience and sin. Historically, this foreshadows the Babylonian conquest and the severe consequences of turning away from God. For believers, it serves as a sobering reminder of the destructive power of sin and the importance of repentance and faithfulness to God’s commands.

her fortresses!
The term "fortresses" refers to the strongholds or defensive structures of a city. In ancient times, these were crucial for a city’s defense against invaders. The mention of fortresses being destroyed signifies the complete vulnerability and downfall of Jerusalem. Spiritually, it can be seen as a warning against placing trust in worldly defenses or human strength, rather than in God. It calls believers to examine their own lives for false securities and to place their trust solely in the Lord.

Verse 5. - Let us go; rather, let us go up. "To go up" is the technical term for the movements of armies, whether advancing (as here and Isaiah 7:1) or retreating (as Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 34:21; Jeremiah 37:5, 11).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Rise up,
ק֚וּמוּ (qū·mū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

let us attack
וְנַעֲלֶ֣ה (wə·na·‘ă·leh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common plural
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

by night
בַלָּ֔יְלָה (ḇal·lā·yə·lāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3915: A twist, night, adversity

and destroy
וְנַשְׁחִ֖יתָה (wə·naš·ḥî·ṯāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin

her fortresses!”
אַרְמְנוֹתֶֽיהָ׃ (’ar·mə·nō·w·ṯe·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 759: A citadel


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